The Placement and Credential Testing Center is committed to ensuring that you receive fair treatment at our center, and that we follow the rules of our classroom professors and vendors. We require everyone to follow these rules.

• All tests require a scheduled testing appointment.
• Please be prepared to present a government issued or student photo identification during time of check-in. Some vendors require a second ID as well.
• You will be required to store all personal belongings in a secure locker we will provide prior to entering the testing area. This does include your mobile phone.
• We are also required to ensure that you are not bringing any disallowed items into the testing area. We may ask you to pat your pockets to ensure they are empty, take off your glasses for inspection, lift your hair if it is long, turn pockets inside out, raise pant legs above ankles, raise long sleeves above wrists. We will never violate your religious freedom. Please let us know if any of these measures are in violation of your religious beliefs, and we will refrain.
• If you are taking the TOEFL, GRE, or Praxis, we are required to use a security wand as part of your check-in.
• Visitors are not allowed in the testing lab, and we cannot permit unaccompanied children to wait in our lobby.
• All tests fees are non-refundable.
• For class exams, the testing center will collect and attach all notes to the paper exam. Please make a copy to keep before you arrive.
• Illegal or unauthorized possession or use of weapons, use or possession of drugs, or alcoholic beverages and/or public intoxication is not permitted in the Testing Center in accordance with the CCD Student Code of Conduct.

Disallowed Items that must be secured in a locker

• Hats, coats, scarves, sunglasses (unless required by religion or medical condition)
• Cell phones, iPads, iPods, Palm PDA’s, other electronic devices
• Watches
• Eyeglass cases, pencil cases, calculator cases
• Purses, backpacks, carrying bags, wallets, keys
• Headphones or earbuds
• Food or drinks
• Illegal or unauthorized possession of weapons and drugs
• Other than service animals, pets are not allowed in the Testing Center
• Other as determined by exam type

All personal item will be stored in the Testing Center’s secured lockers.

Provided Items

• Ear plugs
• Sound machines
• Tissue
• Pencils
• Erasers
• Sound reduction headphones
• Lined and graphing paper (if scratch paper is allowed)